Joseph M. McCormick

Joseph Medill McCormick (16 May 1877-25 February 1925) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois' at-large district (R) from 4 March 1917 to 3 March 1919 (succeeding Burnett M. Chiperfield and preceding Richard Yates Jr.) and a US Senator from 4 March 1919 to 25 February 1925 (succeeding J. Hamilton Lewis and preceding Charles S. Deneen).

Biography
Joseph Medill McCormick was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1877 to a prominent Scots-Irish family, and he worked as a newspaper reporter and publisher, serving as a war correspondent during the Philippine-American War. In 1903, he married Ruth Hanna, who would later herself enter politics. McCormick, suffering from depression and alcoholism, distanced himself from his family's Chicago Tribune and instead entered politics, serving in the US House of Representatives from 1917 to 1919 and in the US Senate from 1919 to 1925. He committed suicide in a hotel room in 1925 after finding out that his party had not renominated him.